MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the news today from multiple sources close to the event, who said verbal agreements are in place with contracts on the way.

UFC 129 takes place April 30 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Cananda, and will feature a welterweight title match between champ Georges St-Pierre and Jake Shields.

Garza vs. Jabouin is expected for the event’s preliminary card.

It’s a fight on home soil for Jabouin, who works out of Montreal’s Tristar Gym under the tutelage of St-Pierre trainer and strategist Firas Zahabi. The Port-au-Price, Haiti, native ended a three-fight stint with the now-defunct WEC on a winning note when he took out Brandon Visher via decision at WEC 52.

The triumph reversed a two-fight slide at the hands of Rafael Assuncao and fellow Canuck Mark Hominick.

Garza, meanwhile, is a month removed from a highlight reel performance against Freidson Paixao in the first featherweight bout in UFC history. Garza launched a flying knee that knocked the Brazilian out cold and threatened to send him out on a stretcher (he turned out to be OK after several tense moments prone on the canvas).

That win put Garza back in the win column after a disappointing octagon debut in which he took a short-notice fight with Chinese import Tiequan Zhang at WEC 51 and was submitted in the first round.

Garza also appeared on the 11th season of “The Ultimate Fighter” and fell short to eventual finalist Michael Johnson in the elimination round of the reality show tournament.

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